...for causing a serious accident?
WTCC at Pau in France today, the Safety Car was released (late, by an apparently clueless pit lane marshal) directly into the path of the race leader in Race 2. The white line is on the right, inside a tight, blind, right hand corner on a street circuit.
The safety car then swings across immediately to the left side of the track at about 40mph, directly into the path of the oncoming >100mph BMW 320Si, which has nowhere to go and slams straight into the armco and the Safety Car in sequence.
The race, predictably, was red flagged and restarted after they had picked up lots of bits of car from the various collisions that caused the SC deployment in the first place. That was damned dangerous, though, and IMO someone needs a rocket up their exhaust pipe. This being the FIA, though, I doubt anything'll happen.
WTCC at Pau in France today, the Safety Car was released (late, by an apparently clueless pit lane marshal) directly into the path of the race leader in Race 2. The white line is on the right, inside a tight, blind, right hand corner on a street circuit.
The safety car then swings across immediately to the left side of the track at about 40mph, directly into the path of the oncoming >100mph BMW 320Si, which has nowhere to go and slams straight into the armco and the Safety Car in sequence.
The race, predictably, was red flagged and restarted after they had picked up lots of bits of car from the various collisions that caused the SC deployment in the first place. That was damned dangerous, though, and IMO someone needs a rocket up their exhaust pipe. This being the FIA, though, I doubt anything'll happen.